Myxopod

mik′so-pod, n. and adj. a protozoan animal having pseudopodia, as distinguished from a mastigopod , which has cilia or flagella.— n.pl. Myxop′oda , protozoans whose locomotive appendages are pseudopodia—the same as Rhizopod a .— adj. Myxop′odous . [Gr. myxa , mucus, pous , podos , a foot.]